Topic: XP joining domain (another one!)

[rickjones]

First things first - Happy Christmas/New-year to everyone!

I'm trying to join an XP box to the domain (SME 6.01). I've searched all the posts and can't find a matching solution to this particular error. The error report is a simply a Windows popup saying the operation failed because "Access is denied".

I've gone through all the various hints - i.e. there is no existing record of this box on SME, it's a brand-new XP install (SP2), I've done the registry tweak, the previous workgroup was a different name, I don't have a Windows login called "admin", etc.

It gets through all the steps, and it is talking to SME, because if I try to use "root" as the login at the final stage it reports "unknown username or bad password" instead - which is I would expect because root isn't a Samba user. Samba authentication is basically working because I have Win98 machines that authenticate their logins against SME.

It just won't create the machine account. It's as if "admin" doesn't have the permissions to perform this task in Samba - if that's the problem, how do I fix it?

This is the first time I've tried to join a machine to this SME domain (I'm familiar with the process on Windows DCs), so I suspect it's a server config issue.

TIA

[ryan]

Its been a long time since I dealt with this, but I always create a smb user 'root' and give it the same password used for sme root/admin....after applying all tweeks to XP, join the domain using root.  I have not played with XP/SME since SP2 came out.

good luck,

ryan

[rickjones]

Tip of the day or what? !!

... I always create a smb user 'root' and give it the same password used for sme root/admin ...

Bingo, that did it. It kinda makes sense, since according to the docs, key Samba functions can only be performed by root. Thus using admin won't work.

This appears to be an omission in SME - shouldn't root always be included as a Samba user? Or does that lead to other security issues? Or is there a way to give admin the required privilege?

Any Samba experts out there?

BTW, this was nothing to do with SP2. I set up another machine, and tried joining the domain before installing SP2 - no difference.

Anyway, thanks again - made my day!

[ryan]

Great!

Just remember to use bash to change smbuser 'root' if you change the reg. root/admin password.

ryan